Happy 2012 everyone! Hopefully, this year will be awesome for everyone!
I've never actually made New Year's Resolutions before, but I decided that, this year, I wanted to give them a try. I really like the idea of starting a resolution at the beginning of something (1st of the month, 1st of the week, whatevs) so 1st of the year should be extra awesome, yes?
I'm probably making too many, but I've got quite a few this year. Some of them are personal/life goals, that I'm not going to share specifics of, but some of them are blogging goals. So, here are my 2012 blogging goals:
*Keep my Review Archive & Goodreads Reviews up to date. (Possibly include Amazon reviews also)
*Be better at general blog upkeep — updating pages, procrastinating less, etc...
*Be better about commenting — both commenting on reviews I read and visiting those who comment on my blog.
*Have at least some reviews written before they are supposed to be posted. (An awful lot of my reviews are written either before I go to bed the night before they post, or right before I post them. It'd be nice to have a few written ahead of time)
*Get (and stay) ahead of/on top of review books.
*Memory Monday
*Stay up to date on both reading challenges I'm hosting.
*Remember that this is something I do for fun, because I enjoy it. And stop letting it stress me out.
That last goal has more to do with personal pressure than any outside pressure. Because I've felt, off and on, throughout the whole time I've blogged that I have to be reading, and sometimes, that I have to be reading those books. And every time I feel like that, I get bogged down and overwhelmed and I get so focused about WhatIneedtobereadingrightthisverysecond and it gets to be too much and so I read nothing at all. I do that about a lot of things (this is another of my life goals: P) When I feel overwhelmed because there is too much to do, I generally end up doing nothing. It's my way of coping. With reading, I've never thought about reading slumps and stuff before. If I felt like reading a ton, I would. If I didn't, I wouldn't. And it wasn't any big thing. It just was. But since I started blogging, I'm hyper aware of my reading moods and it stresses me out now when I don't feel like reading.
Long explanation there, to basically say — This year, I'm going to read if I want and what I want, and it's not going to be a thing anymore. It's just going to be me, enjoying my books and telling the whole freaking world about how awesome this reading thing really is.:)